Sorry if Im hijacking the thread, I've got a question that kind of relates~

8am. I was about 2-3cm Dilated. Steady contractions, and my OB broke my waters.

Four hours later, I was in a lot of pain and I think driving the midwives on the maternity ward crazy, cause they told me my labour wasn't progressing so I was to have a syntocin drip. And I had to have an epidural because if I couldn't handle this pre labour I couldn't handle a syntocin labour.
This decision was made without any internals except from the one at 8am in which my waters had broken.
DD was born 2hours later while I was told to wait for the guy to come and do the epi( about an hour after they moved me to the Suites while telling me it was too early to go there really).

I'm not really sure if what I think is right, but was I meant to have an internal before all that was decided?
Firstly, can I just say I think you were treated pretty badly. But I doubt this is uncommon - I've heard loads of people say they were dismissed as being in pre-labour, yet they birthed their baby only a couple of hours later.
In terms of what they are 'meant' to do, my suggestion is not that they should have done another internal before deciding that your labour should be augmented, but that they should have had some bloody patience.
IMO, there should have been some sort of medical reason for them to want to augment your labour, not just that you've been 'taking too long'.
I am sorry that you were treated this way.